Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread John Barker
On 22/03/2011, at 1:09 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > You seem to have somewhat independently argued that #4 means that Tor > cannot be trusted against (any) large government(s). This, > unfortunately, may be true for some governments. Extremely well funded > adversaries that are able to observe large p

[tor-talk] tor using SSH

2011-03-22 Thread egf
I use on several systems here. The firewall has "noticed" several instances where all these systems are initiating traffic with external sites(1). These occur during odd hours when there is nobody using these systems, thus there is some suspicion. The firewall has since blocked this suspect

Re: [tor-talk] tor using SSH

2011-03-22 Thread Jim
e...@riskproof.no-ip.org wrote: I use on several systems here. The firewall has "noticed" several instances where all these systems are initiating traffic with external sites(1). These occur during odd hours when there is nobody using these systems, thus there is some suspicion. The firewa

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Paul Syverson
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:09:43PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: > Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfs...@gmx.com): > > > On 3/21/2011 2:39 PM, Paul Syverson wrote: > > >On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:06:04PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > > >Last comments for a while. (All I have time for, sorry.) I'm just > >

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/22/2011 12:09 AM, Mike Perry wrote: To distill your argument down, you've said so far: 1. Tor was/is funded by a government. 2. Governments only act out of self-interest. 3. Governments often have ulterior movies. 4. Governments have inconceivable power. Please, please - everyone (probabl

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/21/2011 6:38 PM, Al MailingList wrote: That's a very good point klaus. Joe - if you think the US Government is one big cohesive entity that funds projects consistently from a single pool of resources and money then I would politely suggest you may not have had much to do with them :P

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Watson Ladd
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > Why would any govt create something their enemies can easily use against > them, then continue funding it once they know it helps the enemy, if a govt > has absolutely no control over it?  It's that simple.  It would seem a very > bad idea.  S

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > Why would any govt create something their enemies can easily use against > them, then continue funding it once they know it helps the enemy, if a govt > has absolutely no control over it?  It's that simple.  It would seem a very > bad idea.  S

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Kasimir Gabert
Hi Joe, On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > > Please, please - everyone (probably including me) is making the topic  way > more complicated than my main question.  No one's addressed the main > question.  If there's no answer, that's fine.  Forget conspiracy theories. >  If you

Re: [tor-talk] tor using SSH

2011-03-22 Thread egf
> From tor-talk-boun...@lists.torproject.org Tue Mar 22 04:16:23 2011 (snippage...) > > I don't know if this is what you are talking about or not, but a while > back I noticed port 22 (the traditional SSH port) traffic I wasn't > expecting on one of my machines. Checking tor's cached-descrip

[tor-talk] Users profiling through personаl banners filtering settings

2011-03-22 Thread unknown
Too many users dislikes of annoying web elements -- banners, popups, scripts, strange frames. They use a tools to blocks that elements or change webpage rendering. Traditional programs for filtering is a local proxys -- privoxy or polipo are examples with close relation to Tor and used actively

Re: [tor-talk] tor using SSH

2011-03-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:48:59 -0600 e...@riskproof.no-ip.org wrote: > I use on several systems here. The firewall has "noticed" > several instances where all these systems are initiating > traffic with external sites(1). These occur during odd > hours when there is nobody using these systems,

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/22/2011 11:38 AM, Kasimir Gabert wrote: Of course, if Tor was only funded from one subtree, say the imaginary "US Monitoring Internet Communications Agency" then you might have some reason to be concerned. Take care, Kasimir No idea why funding from one source is an issue. Not a requir

Re: [tor-talk] tor using SSH

2011-03-22 Thread Benedikt Westermann
> Jim, I am unclear as to what you are saying.. you noticed > port 22 traffic you weren't expecting on one of your machines.. > Do you recall if that traffic was INITIATED from your machine or > were you seeing UNSOLICITED incoming SYNs for port 22? > Your machine, running a Tor client, initi

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Michael Reed
On 03/22/2011 12:08 PM, Watson Ladd wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Why would any govt create something their enemies can easily use against them, then continue funding it once they know it helps the enemy, if a govt has absolutely no control over it? It's that simp

Re: [tor-talk] tor using SSH

2011-03-22 Thread egf
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:13:33 -0400 > From: Andrew Lewman > > How are you detecting ssh activity? actual protocol analysis or tcp > port 22? There are valid relays on tcp port 22 which your tor client > may connect to in the normal operation of tor. > having capturing ALL packets comin

Re: [tor-talk] tor using SSH

2011-03-22 Thread egf
> From: Benedikt Westermann > > Your machine, running a Tor client, initiates a connection to a machine > on port 22. This is your situation as I understood it. > > All of the mentioned IPs are IPs of Tor nodes and all of them announcing > port 22 as a listen port, e.g., Amunet9, a Tor router

Re: [tor-talk] Iran cracks down on web dissident technology

2011-03-22 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 3/22/2011 3:57 PM, Michael Reed wrote: BINGO, we have a winner! The original *QUESTION* posed that led to the invention of Onion Routing was, "Can we build a system that allows for bi-directional communications over the Internet where the source and destination cannot be determined by a m

Re: [tor-talk] How evil is TLS cert collection?

2011-03-22 Thread Robert Ransom
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:09:38 -0700 Mike Perry wrote: > Thus spake Robert Ransom (rransom.8...@gmail.com): > > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:58:06 -0700 > > Mike Perry wrote: > > > > > However, I'm not sure that this is going to work for Tor Browser > > > Bundle users (which ships with HTTPS Everywh

Re: [tor-talk] Stricter NEWNYM?

2011-03-22 Thread katmagic
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:13:39 -0500 (CDT) Scott Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:17:30 -0800 Robert Ransom > wrote: > >On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:21:22 +0100 > >anonym wrote: > > > >> While I've been developing the LiveCDs Incognito and Tails I've got my > >> fair share of feature request

Re: [tor-talk] tor using SSH

2011-03-22 Thread Jim
e...@riskproof.no-ip.org wrote: From tor-talk-boun...@lists.torproject.org Tue Mar 22 04:16:23 2011 (snippage...) I don't know if this is what you are talking about or not, but a while back I noticed port 22 (the traditional SSH port) traffic I wasn't expecting on one of my machines. Check

Re: [tor-talk] How evil is TLS cert collection?

2011-03-22 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Robert Ransom (rransom.8...@gmail.com): > > > This ???phone-home??? behaviour is not safe for users who browse the web > > > over Tor until proposal 171 is implemented in Tor. At best, it would > > > *only* fragment the anonymity set of Tor users. > > > > The problem with 171 (SOCKS u